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    August 2024

  • Community After-hours Tour at Sketching Splendor Exhibit

    Community After-hours Tour at Sketching Splendor Exhibit

    American Philosophical Society
    105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA

    Southwest neighbors are invited to a community after-hours tour of Sketching Splendor at the American Philosophical Society. Light refreshments will be served. Sketching Splendor: American Natural History, 1750-1850 explores how William Bartram, Titian Ramsay Peale, and John James Audubon made sense of nature’s complexities through their writings, drawings, and watercolors. It highlights their approaches to...


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    • May 2025

  • Venus Fly Trap Opening Performance and Reception

    Venus Fly Trap Opening Performance and Reception

    Venus Fly Trap

    BlackStar presents a site-specific, newly commissioned performance series and installation at Bartram’s Garden, from artist Joiri Minaya. Curated by writer and editor Dessane Lopez Cassell, the series will reflect on the intertwined legacies of freedom, extraction, and ecology in North America's oldest surviving botanical garden. Much like a Venus flytrap, the plant this project is...


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  • Venus Fly Trap Performance

    Venus Fly Trap Performance

    Venus Fly Trap

    BlackStar presents a site-specific, newly commissioned performance series and installation at Bartram’s Garden, from artist Joiri Minaya. Curated by writer and editor Dessane Lopez Cassell, the series will reflect on the intertwined legacies of freedom, extraction, and ecology in North America's oldest surviving botanical garden. Much like a Venus flytrap, the plant this project is...


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  • Venus Fly Trap Performance

    Venus Fly Trap Performance

    BlackStar presents a site-specific, newly commissioned performance series and installation at Bartram’s Garden, from artist Joiri Minaya. Curated by writer and editor Dessane Lopez Cassell, the series will reflect on the intertwined legacies of freedom, extraction, and ecology in North America's oldest surviving botanical garden. Much like a Venus flytrap, the plant this project is...


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    • June 2025

  • Venus Fly Trap Performance

    Venus Fly Trap Performance

    Venus Fly Trap

    BlackStar presents a site-specific, newly commissioned performance series and installation at Bartram’s Garden, from artist Joiri Minaya. Curated by writer and editor Dessane Lopez Cassell, the series will reflect on the intertwined legacies of freedom, extraction, and ecology in North America's oldest surviving botanical garden. Much like a Venus flytrap, the plant this project is...


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  • Venus Fly Trap Performance

    Venus Fly Trap Performance

    Venus Fly Trap

    BlackStar presents a site-specific, newly commissioned performance series and installation at Bartram’s Garden, from artist Joiri Minaya. Curated by writer and editor Dessane Lopez Cassell, the series will reflect on the intertwined legacies of freedom, extraction, and ecology in North America's oldest surviving botanical garden. Much like a Venus flytrap, the plant this project is...


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  • Juneteenth Jubilee

    Juneteenth Jubilee

    Featured

    Join us for our Juneteenth Jubilee, co-hosted and emcee'd by our friends at VinylTap 215. Enjoy a full day of activities such as live performances and storytelling, vendors, free workshops, lawn games and more! Note: Given the forecast heat, some adjustments have been made to this event: Activities will take place in shade or in...


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    • October 2025

  • SWWAG Workshop: Seed Keeping

    SWWAG Workshop: Seed Keeping

    SWWAG 2025 Workshops
    Sankofa Community Farm at Bartram's Garden
    5400 Lindbergh Blvd, Philadelphia, PA

    Join Owen Taylor of Truelove Seeds and Chris Bolden-Newsome of Sankofa Community Farm in an evening of seed keeping and story weaving, and have a deep-rooted conversation about our collective past and evolving futures.    


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